Talks from Previous Years
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Talks from Previous Years |
| 2010 Seminars | ||||
| Organizers: John Debes, Hannah Jang-Condell, Marc Kuchner, & Aki Roberge | ||||
| Jan 7: | AAS Meeting & ExoPAG Meeting in Washington DC | |||
| Jan 14: | Daniel Pendick (GSFC) | "Science as Storytelling: How to Weave a Gripping Tale from Your Research to Engage and Inform the Public" | ||
| Jan 21: | Carolyn Crow (U of MD) | "Our Solar System at Low Spectral Resolution: A Starting Point for Characterizing Colors of Other Systems" | ||
| Jan 28: | Third Annual Sciences & Exploration Directorate (Code 600) New Year's Poster Party | |||
| Feb 4: | Angelle Tanner (Georgia State) |
"Planet Searches with Infrared Radial Velocities: Young and Low-mass Stars" | ||
| Feb 18: | Soko Matsumura (U of MD) | "Tidal Evolution of Transiting Planets" | ||
| Feb 25: | Sergei Ipatov (Catholic U) | "Velocities and Relative Amount of Material Ejected After the Deep Impact Collision" | ||
| Mar 10: | Guillem Anglada (Carnegie DTM) |
"Precision Astrometry and Exoplanet Detection Around Nearby Cool Dwarfs" | ||
| Mar 24: | Hannah Jang-Condell (U of MD / GSFC) |
"Hunting for Planets Around Young Stars Using Imaging" | ||
| Apr 1: | Stella Kafka (Carnegie DTM) Thursday (no fooling) |
"Activity on the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables: Nature or Nurture?" | ||
| Apr 7: | Mike Disanti (GSFC) | "Comets as Fossils: An Emerging Compositional Taxonomy Through Infrared Spectroscopy" | ||
| Apr 21: | Michael McElwain (Princeton) | "Exoplanetary Science: Instrumentation, Observations, and Expectations" | ||
| May 12: | Ravi Kopparapu (Penn State) | "Dynamical Stability of Terrestrial-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of Known Systems" | ||
| June 2: | Maxime Rizzo (Universite de Toulouse) |
"Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Realistic Simulations of ExoEarth Observations" | ||
| July 14: | Joshua Pepper (Vanderbilt) | "Tales from the Trenches of Exoplanet Discovery: KELT and MARVELS" | ||
| Aug 4: | Peter Lawson (JPL) | "Technology Development for Exoplanet Missions" | ||
| Aug 6: | Jeanette Bast (Leiden Observatory) Friday, usual time & place |
"Exploring the Chemical and Physical Structure of Terrestrial Planet-Forming Zones in Protoplanetary Disks with CO Line Profiles" | ||
| Sept 1: | John Debes (GSFC) | "The Link Between Dusty White Dwarfs and Planetary Systems" | ||
| Sept 8: | Herschel and the Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems Conference in Saro Sweden | |||
| Sept 15: | Discussion of exoplanets in the Astro2010 Decadal Report | |||
| Sept 22: | David Bennett (Notre Dame) | "The Most Common Exoplanets Known: Cold Neptunes and Saturns from Microlensing" | ||
| Sept 29: | Thayne Currie (GSFC) | |||
| Oct 6: | DPS Meeting in Pasadena CA | |||
| Oct 19: | David Spiegel (Princeton) Tuesday at 12 PM |
"Climatic Habitability, Generalized Milankovitch Cycles, and Theory of Giant Exoplanets" | ||
| Oct 21: | Ruslan Belikov (NASA Ames) Thursday at 2 PM in Room E256 |
"Beyond Kepler: Direct Imaging of Exo-Earths" | ||
| Oct 27: | In the Spirit of Lyot Conference in Paris France | |||
| Nov 3: | Xavier Koenig (GSFC) | "WISE and Spitzer Observations of Intermediate Mass Stars: In Pursuit of Planet Formation" | ||
| Nov 18: | John Gizis (U of Deleware) Thursday at 1:30 PM |
"M Dwarfs in the Mid-Infrared" | ||
| Dec 2: | Gerard van Belle (ESO) Thursday |
"Commissioning Results from the VLTI PRIMA Facility" | ||
| Dec 8: | Donald Terndrup (NSF) | "Exoplanet Research at NSF Astronomy" | ||
| Dec 15: | Wladimir Lyra (AMNH) | "Layered accretion in protoplanetary disks: Interplay between the magneto-rotational and baroclinic instabilities" | ||
| 2009 Seminars | ||||
| Organizers: Aki Roberge, Marc Kuchner, & Hannah Jang-Condell | ||||
| Jan 8: | AAS Meeting in Long Beach CA | |||
| Jan 15: | Rob Olling (U of MD) | "Astrometric & Photometric Detection & Characterization of (massive) Extra-Solar Planets" | ||
| Jan 22: | Fergal Mullally (Princeton) | "Planets, Debris Disks, and White Dwarf Stars" | ||
| Jan 29: | John Chambers (Carnegie DTM) |
"Planet Formation, Oligarchic Growth, and Planetary Migration" | ||
| Feb 2: | Andrew Youdin (CITA) Monday at 3:00 PM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse" | ||
| Feb 5: | Remi Soummer (STScI) | "Exoplanet Community Report on Direct Optical Imaging" & "Recent Thoughts About Using a Starshade with JWST" | ||
| Feb 12: | Brian Wood (NRL) | "Stellar Wind Evolution and its Effects on Disks and Planetary Atmospheres" | ||
| Feb 19: | Dinshaw Balsara (Notre Dame) |
"Dust Settling in Turbulent Protostellar Accretion Disks" Alternate location: Building 21, Room 242 |
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| Feb 26: | Thayne Currie (Harvard) | "The Time History of Protoplanetary Disk Evolution As Reconstructed From Spitzer" | ||
| Mar 4: | Wes Traub (JPL) Wednesday at 1:00 PM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "Can Earth-Twins be Characterized with Transits?" | ||
| Mar 5: | Tracy Beck (STScI) | "Near Infrared Spectral Imaging of the Inner 200 AU Environments of T Tauri Stars" | ||
| Mar 12: | Susan Benecchi (STScI) | "Kuiper Belt Binaries and Collision Families: Probes of our Local Dust Disk" | ||
| Mar 19: | National Capital Area Disks Meeting II at U of MD | |||
| Mar 26: | Evgenya Shkolnik (Carnegie DTM) |
"In Search of Magnetic Star-Planet Interactions: A Probe of Exoplanetary B-fields" | ||
| Apr 2: | Demos Kazanas (GSFC) | "Exact Solutions of the Isothermal Lane-Emden Equation with Rotation and Implications for the Formation of Planets and Satellites" | ||
| Apr 16: | Dennis Bodewits (GSFC) | "Cometary X-rays & Charge Exchange in the Solar Sytem" | ||
| Apr 23: | Missions for Exoplanets: 2010-2020 Meeting in Pasadena CA | |||
| Apr 30: | Dimitri Veras (U of Florida) | "Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU" | ||
| May 7: | The Search for Life in the Universe Symposium at STScI | |||
| May 8: | Jian Ge (U of Florida) Friday at 10:30 AM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "The SDSS-III Multi-object APO Radial-Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey" Alternate location: Building 2, Room 8 |
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| May 14, 21, 28: | Seminar on vacation while Room 183 in B21 is renovated. | |||
| June 4: | James Muzerolle (STScI) | "Protoplanetary Disks with AU-scale Inner Holes and Gaps: Signposts of Planet Formation?" | ||
| June 25: | Ben Sargent (STScI) | "Dust Processing and Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks" | ||
| July 9: | Rosemary Killen (GSFC) | "Mercury's Exosphere: Composition, Variability and Implications for Source and Loss of Volatiles" | ||
| July 16: | Nelly Mouawad (U of MD) | "Mercury's Sodium Exosphere: Space and Ground-Based Observations" | ||
| July 30: | Andrew Rivkin (JHU-APL) | "Studying the Vermin: Asteroid Science for Astrophysicists" | ||
| Seminar on vacation for the month of August. | ||||
| Sept 3: | Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM) |
"The Expanding Doppler Planet Search" | ||
| Sept 17: | Brian Jackson (GSFC) | "Tides and Exoplanets" Alternate location: Building 21, Room 242 |
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| Sept 24: | Nick Cowan (U of Washington) |
"Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World" | ||
| Oct 1: | Marshall Perrin (UCLA) | "Investigating Planetesimal Assembly in Circumstellar Disks Using Coronagraphic Polarimetry" | ||
| Oct 8: | William Ward (GSFC) | "Introduction to High Performance Computing Capabilities at GSFC" | ||
| Oct 15: | Catherine Neish (JHU-APL) | "Titan's Primordial Soup" | ||
| Oct 22: | Women in Astronomy 2009 Meeting in College Park MD | |||
| Oct 29: | Patricia Boyd (GSFC) | "Kepler: NASA's First Dedicated Exoplanet Space Mission" | ||
| Nov 5: | From Circumstellar Disks to Planetary Systems Meeting in Garching, Germany | |||
| Nov 12: | Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposium at Caltech | |||
| Nov 19: | Daniel Apai (STScI) | "Gas Giants Beyond the Solar System: Direct Imaging and Eclipse Observations of Hot Exoplanets" | ||
| Nov 26: | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
| Dec 3: | Nicholas Moskovitz (Carnegie DTM) | "Cores, Crusts, and Collisions: A Story of Early Planetesimal Evolution" | ||
| Dec 10: | Matt Mountain (STScI) | "Characterizing Exoplanets -- A View from Baltimore" Alternate Location: Building 34, Room E215 |
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| Dec 17: | Doug Hamilton (U of MD) | "Saturn's Largest Ring" | ||
| Dec 24, 31: | Happy Holidays | |||
| 2008 Seminars | ||||
| Organizers: Aki Roberge, Marc Kuchner, & Daniel Jontof-Hutter | ||||
| Jan 16: | John Carr (NRL) Alternate day |
"Organic Molecules and Water in Protoplanetary Disks" | ||
| Jan 17: | Francis O'Donovan (GSFC) | "The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanets Survey (TrES)" | ||
| Jan 24: | Stephen Ridgeway (NASA HQ) |
"Conversations on Optical Interferometry: Extended Stellar Atmospheres, Planning for the Future, and the IAU" | ||
| Jan 31: | John Debes (CIW-DTM) | "Tracking Planetesimals from the Cradle to the Grave" | ||
| Feb 7: | Casey Lisse (JHU-APL) | "Dusty Disks & Comets: Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Solar System" | ||
| Feb 20: | Jonathan Levine (U of Chicago) Alternate day |
"Nuclear Astrophysics on the Micron Scale: Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Presolar Grains and Interplanetary Dust Particles" | ||
| Feb 21: | Dan Durda (NASA HQ / SWRI) |
"Size-Frequency Distributions of Dust-Size Debris from the Impact Disruption of Chondritic Meteorites" | ||
| Mar 13: | Doug Hamilton (U of MD) Alternate time 4 PM |
"Jupiter's Shadow Sculpts Its Gossamer Rings" | ||
| Mar 27: | Henry Throop (SWRI) | "Planet Formation in Young Star Clusters" | ||
| Apr 10: | Ruslan Belikov (GSFC) | "The Search for Other Earths: High Contrast Coronagraphy at Princeton" | ||
| Apr 17: | Vladimir Airapetian (Catholic U/GSFC) | "Auroral Processes and Atmospheric Response of Jupiters Around Red Giants" | ||
| Apr 24: | Frank Shu (UC San Diego) | "Protoplanetary Disks and YSO Jets" | ||
| May 8: | Claudia Knez (U of MD) | "Ice Composition in Dense Molecular Clouds" | ||
| May 15: | Ron Allen (STScI) | "The Space Interferometry Mission: Taking the Measure of the Universe" | ||
| May 27: | Kaspar von Braun (MSC)
Alternate Day |
"Directly Determined Radii and Effective Surface Temperatures of Exoplanet Host Stars" | ||
| June 5: | Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie DTM) | "Compositions of Circumstellar Disks and Implications for Planets Within Them" | ||
| Oct 2: | Stephen Redman (Penn State) |
"PRVS Pathfinder: Achieving Precision Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared" | ||
| Oct 9: | Christine Chen (STScI) | "The Origin and Evolution of Dust and Gas in Debris Disks" | ||
| Oct 16: | Marty Bitner (STScI) | "H2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks" | ||
| Oct 23: | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) | "The Historical Record of Zodiacal Dust and What it Means for TPF" & "Measuring Dwarf Planets With SIM" | ||
| Oct 30: | No talk -- Spitzer Disks Conference in Pasadena CA | |||
| Nov 6: | Geronimo Villanueva (GSFC) | "Mapping of Biomarker Gases on Mars: Evidence for Local Release" | ||
| Nov 13: | John Debes (GSFC) | |||
| Nov 17: | Rory Barnes (U of AZ) Monday at 3:30 PM Building 2, Room 8 |
Special (Exo)Planetary Seminar -- "Planetary Habitability Near Low-Mass Stars" | ||
| Nov 20: | Ilaria Pascucci (JHU) | "The Clearing of Protoplanetary Disks and of the Solar Nebula -- How Common is the History of the Solar System?" | ||
| Nov 27: | No talk -- Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
| Dec 4: | Pavel Machalek (STScI) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 |
"Thermal Emission of Exoplanets with Spitzer" | ||
| Dec 11: | Sally Heap (GSFC) | "The Direct Path to Finding Earth-Like Planets" | ||
| Dec 18: | Derek Richardson (U of MD) |
"Rotational Breakup as the Origin of Small Binary Asteroids" | ||
| 2007 Seminars | ||||
| Organizers: Marc Kuchner, Aki Roberge, & Daniel Jontof-Hutter | ||||
| Jan. 18: | Ruslan Belikov (Princeton) | "Toward 1010 Contrast for Terrestrial Exoplanet Detection: High Contrast Imaging with a Shaped Pupil Coronagraph" | ||
| Jan. 25: | Avi Mandell (GSFC) | "Using NIR Emission Lines to Trace the Thermodynamics of Circumstellar Disks" | ||
| Feb. 8: | Daniel Jontof-Hutter (U of MD) | "The Effect of Gas Drag and Radiation Pressure on Dust Around Beta Pictoris" | ||
| Mar. 1: | Chris Stark (U of MD) | "Debris Disk Structures Induced by Terrestrial-Mass Planets" | ||
| Mar. 8: | Sally Heap (GSFC) | "The Terrestrial Planet Finder - Occulter" | ||
| Mar. 15: | Tim Livengood (GSFC) | "Quirks of the Planets (That We Know About)" | ||
| Mar. 22: | Margaret Turnbull (STScI) | "Homes Away from Home: Life Among the Stars" | ||
| Mar. 29: | Ian Jordan (STScI) | "External Occultation: Past, Present, and Future" | ||
| Apr. 5: | Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CIW-DTM) | "High-Precision Transit Photometry: Radii, Albedos, and Satellites of Extrasolar Planets" | ||
| Apr. 12: | Jeff Valenti (STScI) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "The Link Between Stellar Metallicity and Planets" | ||
| Apr. 19: | Guillem Anglada (University of Barcelona) | "The Gaia (ESA) Mission Overview: From Exoplanets to Fundamental Physics Across the Galaxy" | ||
| May 3: | Robert Naeye (GSFC) | "My Experience in the Magazine Business and the Journalist/Scientist Relationship" | ||
| May 10: | Egemen Kolemen (Princeton) | "Dynamics and Control of an Occulter-Based Planet-Finding Mission" | ||
| May 24: | David Lary (GSFC) | "Modeling and Data Assimilation for Planetary Atmospheres" | ||
| June 14: | Doug Hamilton (U of MD) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Neptunian Satellites: Origins and Evolution" | ||
| July 12: | Christine Chen (NOAO) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "IRS Spectroscopy of IRAS Discovered Debris Disks" | ||
| July 19: | Vladimir Airapetian (Catholic U/GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Extrasolar Planets in the Radio" | ||
| Aug. 13: | Jason Steffen (Fermilab) Alternate day and time Monday at 2 PM | "Detecting Terrestrial Planets in Transiting Planetary Systems" | ||
| Sept. 27: | Alan Boss (CIW-DTM) Alternate time 10:30 AM | "A Heretic's Approach to Solar System Formation" | ||
| Oct. 4: | Scott Sheppard (CIW-DTM) |
"Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System" | ||
| Oct. 18: | Mike Mumma (GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 |
"Astrobiology at Goddard Space Flight Center" | ||
| Oct. 25: | Nicolas Iro (GSFC) | "A Time-Dependent Model for Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres" | ||
| Nov. 1: | Sean Solomon (CIW-DTM) |
"The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury: Seeking Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Inner Solar System" | ||
| Nov. 8: | Peter McCullough (STScI) |
"XO Planets: Very Recent Results from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes" | ||
| Nov. 29: | Lee Mundy (U of MD) Alternate time 11:30 AM | "Insights into Star Formation and Dust Properties from the Spitzer c2d Legacy Project" | ||
| Dec. 6: | David Golimowski (JHU) |
"Coronagraphic Imaging of Dusty Debris Disks: Sifting the Rubble of Planet Formation" | ||
| Dec. 13: | Ludmilla Kolokolova (U of MD) |
"What We Can Learn About Cosmic Dust from Photopolarimetric and Thermal Infrared Data: Example of Comet Dust" | ||
| Dec. 20: | Dave Spiegel (Columbia U) |
"Climatic Habitability" | ||
| 2006 Seminars | ||||
| Organizers: Marc Kuchner & Aki Roberge | ||||
| Jan 12: | No seminar due to AAS meeting in Washington DC | |||
| Jan 19: | Arsen Hajian (USNO) | "The Dispersed FTS: A New Tool for Planet Hunting" | ||
| Feb 2: | Kailash Sahu (STScI) | "The Discovery of a New 5.5 Earth mass planet Using Microlensing" | ||
| Feb 16: | Tony Mallama | "Orbital Phase Curves of the Terrestrial Planets" | ||
| Feb 23: | Bill Oegerle (GSFC) | "Dust Disks and Planets (?) Around Massive Stars" | ||
| March 2: | Hannah Jang-Condell (CIW-DTM) | |||
| March 16: | No seminar due to TPF-C STDT meeting | |||
| March 23: | Sara Seager (CIW-DTM) | "From Hot Jupiters to Hot Earths" | ||
| March 30: | No seminar due to Astrobiology Science Conference (Washington DC) | |||
| March 31: | Ted von Hippel (UT Austin) | |||
| April 6: | Jeremy Richardson (GSFC) | |||
| April 13: | Graeme Lufkin (U of MD) | |||
| April 20: | Ke Zhang (U of MD) | |||
| April 27: | Steve Lubow (STScI) | |||
| May 11: | Harri Vanhala (USRA/NCESSE) | |||
| May 18: | Fred Ciesla (CIW-DTM) | |||
| May 25: | Giovanna Tinetti (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) | "Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Reflected, Emitted and Transmitted Spectra" | ||
| June 29: | Bradford Behr (USNO) | |||
| Sept 14: | Alan Boss (CIW-DTM) | "Gas Giant Planet Formation: Theory vs. Observation" | ||
| Oct. 5: | Discussion of "Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy" | |||
| Oct. 12: | Inga Kamp (STScI) | "The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: Boundary Conditions for Planet Formation" | ||
| Oct. 26: | Carol Grady (GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "The Disk and Environment of a Young Vega Analog : HD169142" | ||
| Nov. 16: | Dave Chuss (GSFC) Alternate location Building 21, Room 242 | Discussion of "Rounding up the Wanderers: Optimizing Coronagraphic Searches for Extrasolar Planets" by Eric Agol | ||
| Nov. 30: | Rich Barry (GSFC) | "Interferometric Observations of the Nova RS Ophiuchi" | ||
| Dec. 7: | John Debes (CIW-DTM) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Red, Grey, and Blue: The Different Albedo Spectra of Resolved Circumstellar Disks" | ||
| Dec. 14: | John Wisniewski (GSFC) | "Resolved and Unresolved Structure in Circumstellar Disks" | ||
| 2005 Seminars | ||||
| Organizer: Marc Kuchner | ||||
| Sept 22: | Bruce Woodgate (GSFC) | "The 10th Planet" | ||
| Sept 29: | Bill Danchi (GSFC) | |||
| Oct 13: | Discussion of Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Meeting (Nice, France) | |||
| Oct 20: | No seminar due to Nearby Resolved Debris Disks Meeting (STScI) | |||
| Oct 27: | Rick Lyon | "Coronagraphic Nulling for Exo-Solar Planetary Detection and Characterization" | ||
| Nov 10: | Mark Clampin (GSFC) | |||
| Nov 16: | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) Alternate day | "Reading the Resonant Signatures of Planets in Debris Disks" Stellar and Extragalactic Lunch Talk |
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| Nov 17: | Amir Giveon (Princeton) and Ron Shiri (GSFC) | Amir's Powerpoint, Ron's Powerpoint | ||
| Dec 1: | Dominic Benford (GSFC) | "Resolving and Searching for Debris Disks in the Submillimeter" | Dec 8: | Johannes Staguhn | "Probing Protoplanetary Disks and Extrasolar Planets with the Suborbital Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)" |
| Dec 15: | Drake Deming (GSFC) | |||